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Mantras and Vidyās which ensured protection tothe Sadhaka against snakes and success in debates. As Santisūri had achieved extraordinary success in the Sadhanā of Sarasvati his grand-pupil also must have been similarly successful. His other Mántric achievements in removing the troubles created by the said Kumudacandra are described in his biography in Prabhāvakacaritra and elsewhere and we need not narrate them here. He performed installation ceremonies in new temples constructed at Falodhi and Arāsaņa (modern Kumbhāriā near Mt. Abu) in 1204 and died in 1226 Vikrama era.
ŚRI HEMACANDRĀCĀRYA SRI MALAYAGIRI AND ŚRI DEVACANDRASORI
Tradition says that Sri Devacandrasūri Sri Hemacandrācārya and Achārya Sri Malayagiri jointly performed the Sādhanā of Siddhacakra and obtained boons from the presiding deity. Sri Hemacandrācārya was granted the boon which endowed him with powers to convince king of the truth of the Jain doctrine and to make him accept the Jain faith, Sri Malayagiri obtained the boon enabling him to conment on the Jain canon and Sri Devacandrasūri, by the boon, secured to himself power by which Vira-deities may be at his command so that he might get them transfer temples idols and things from distant places whenever he desired. Now Devendrasūri, the Achārya who actually installed in a temple at Serisā idols brought there in a single night from Ayodhyā to Serisā was of Nagendragaccha and flourished later (Circa 1264 Vikrama era). He could not, therefore, be one of the three Achāryas concerned in the aforesaid Sadhanā. This anachronism can be explained by the supposition that the Achārya concerned was Devacandrasūri, the preceptor of Sri Hemacandrácarya and not the said Devendrasūri. He might have been the recipient of the said boon. He was actually
sance to Sri Rşabhadeva and then before Sri Ambikādevi he recited a hymn in her praise on which she appeared before him and advised him to return immediately to Patan as his preceptor was destined to die there after eight months from that day. Sri Santisūri is also credited with the restoration of Angavidya.
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